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Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a farmer-labor-socialist party founded 30 July, 1932, in Calgary, Alberta, its original principles being embodied in the Regina Manifesto. The party was best known as the C.C.F. and was superseded in the early 1960's by the New Democratic Party.

See: CCF,New Democratic Party,Regina Manifesto

Quotations

1934

Endorsation of a brief, fighting platform, the establishment of a national C.C.F. movement . . . featured the second annual convention of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.

1953

There are some who say there is a direct connection between that sad July day in 1935 and the 1944 election of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation--more commonly, C.C.F.--government of Saskatchewan, the first Socialist administration in North America.

1963

In 1932 the U.F.A. members of Parliament, labour politicians, farmer leaders, trade-union leaders and left-wing intellectuals began the organization of a new party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.